Transport and Map Symbols

Transport and Map Symbols
Range U+1F680..U+1F6FF
(128 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Common
Symbol sets Map symbols
Transport icons
Assigned 103 code points
Unused 25 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0 70 (+70)
7.0 97 (+27)
8.0 98 (+1)
9.0 103 (+5)
Note: [1][2]

Transport and Map Symbols is a Unicode block containing transportation and map icons, largely for compatibility with Japanese Telephone carriers' emoji implementations of Shift JIS and to encode characters in the Wingdings and Wingdings 2 character sets.

Transport and Map Symbols[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1F68x 🚀 🚁 🚂 🚃 🚄 🚅 🚆 🚇 🚈 🚉 🚊 🚋 🚌 🚍 🚎 🚏
U+1F69x 🚐 🚑 🚒 🚓 🚔 🚕 🚖 🚗 🚘 🚙 🚚 🚛 🚜 🚝 🚞 🚟
U+1F6Ax 🚠 🚡 🚢 🚣 🚤 🚥 🚦 🚧 🚨 🚩 🚪 🚫 🚬 🚭 🚮 🚯
U+1F6Bx 🚰 🚱 🚲 🚳 🚴 🚵 🚶 🚷 🚸 🚹 🚺 🚻 🚼 🚽 🚾 🚿
U+1F6Cx 🛀 🛁 🛂 🛃 🛄 🛅 🛆 🛇 🛈 🛉 🛊 🛋 🛌 🛍 🛎 🛏
U+1F6Dx 🛐 🛑 🛒
U+1F6Ex 🛠 🛡 🛢 🛣 🛤 🛥 🛦 🛧 🛨 🛩 🛪 🛫 🛬
U+1F6Fx 🛰 🛱 🛲 🛳 🛴 🛵 🛶
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 9.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

The Transport and Map Symbols block contains 92 emoji: U+1F680–U+1F6C5, U+1F6CB–U+1F6D2, U+1F6E0–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6EB–U+1F6EC, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3–U+1F6F6.[3][4]

The block has 26 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following thirteen base characters: U+1F6CB, U+1F6CD–U+1F6CF, U+1F6E0–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3. [5] All of these base characters default to a text presentation.

Emoji variation sequences
U+ 1F6CB 1F6CD 1F6CE 1F6CF 1F6E0 1F6E1 1F6E2
base code point 🛋 🛍 🛎 🛏 🛠 🛡 🛢
base+VS15 (text) 🛋 🛍 🛎 🛏 🛠 🛡 🛢
base+VS16 (emoji) 🛋 🛍 🛎 🛏 🛠 🛡 🛢
U+ 1F6E3 1F6E4 1F6E5 1F6E9 1F6F0 1F6F3
base code point 🛣 🛤 🛥 🛩 🛰 🛳
base+VS15 (text) 🛣 🛤 🛥 🛩 🛰 🛳
base+VS16 (emoji) 🛣 🛤 🛥 🛩 🛰 🛳

Diversity

The Transport and Map Symbols block has six emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FBU+1F3FF to provide for a range of skin tones using the Fitzpatrick scale:[4]

Human emoji
U+ 1F6A3 1F6B4 1F6B5 1F6B6 1F6C0 1F6CC
emoji 🚣 🚴 🚵 🚶 🛀 🛌
FITZ-1-2 🚣🏻 🚴🏻 🚵🏻 🚶🏻 🛀🏻 🛌🏻
FITZ-3 🚣🏼 🚴🏼 🚵🏼 🚶🏼 🛀🏼 🛌🏼
FITZ-4 🚣🏽 🚴🏽 🚵🏽 🚶🏽 🛀🏽 🛌🏽
FITZ-5 🚣🏾 🚴🏾 🚵🏾 🚶🏾 🛀🏾 🛌🏾
FITZ-6 🚣🏿 🚴🏿 🚵🏿 🚶🏿 🛀🏿 🛌🏿

Additional human emoji can be found is other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs and Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs.

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2016-11-22.
  4. 1 2 "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2016-11-14.
  5. "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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